Historian Prof Susan Broomhall secures $2m+ in international funding, exploring the emotional impact of migration and separation, & to research child slavery in the early modern world w Dr @jessica_oleary & Dr Kristie Flannery @thehistoriann bit.ly/3Ofn37y @MovedApart
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Our global team of scholars are experts in the fields of history, politics, sociology, and literature.
Joined September 2022
- Our director presenting on the Australian Greek Welfare Society and the migrant rights movement in 1970s Australia #ozha2023
- HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to IHSS' @DrJessicaCLake, Research Fellow in our Gender & Women's History Research Centre (@GenderWomenHist) for winning a #DECRA grant for her project "The Colour of Sexual Slander", investigating the transnational history of slander in the 19th C.
- Congrats to Dr Jason Smeaton @JJSmeaton who recently graduated with a PhD in History, supported by his two academic supervisors, Dr @Mary_Tomsic & Prof @JoyDamousi. Jason also benefited from associate end-user supervision at the Australian Department of Veterans' Affairs @DVAAus
- Prof @JoyDamousi, Dr Rachel Stevens and @Mary_Tomsic addressed the Federal Parliament's Joint Standing Committee on Migration inquiry on 'Migration, Pathway to Nation Building'. Full sub here: bit.ly/3Ncx9rz @ACU_IHSS @ACUmedia
- Join the #IHSSFridayForum 25 Nov 3.30-5pm AEDT: “Cruelty, desertion and the family: Converging histories of marriage and domestic violence” bit.ly/3Vakbv6 w/ spkrs Prof @AnnCurthoys AM FASSA FAHA, A/Prof Catherine Kevin, Dr @ZoraSimic Dr Ellen Warne @ACUmedia DM for link
- Australian Historical Association @AustHistAssoc is offering awards, bursaries and scholarships for HDRs and ERCs to attend AHA Conference #OzAHA2023 at ACU Melbourne Campus, 3-6 July 2023 @ACU_IHSS @ACUmedia More info: bit.ly/40ShmCq
- Register here for @LilithJournal 2023 Symposium on Gender and Joy (27-28/9), sponsored by @AusWHN & the Gender and Women’s History Research Centre @GenderWomenHist @ACU_IHSS @ACUmedia
- Interested in undertaking a PhD or MPhil in history, politics, sociology, literature @ACU_IHSS? Scholarship applications open until 16 Oct for 2023. bit.ly/3rAYisa
- IHSS Director @joydamousi launching her new book, "The Humanitarians" (Cambridge) @ACUmedia #OZHA2023
- Congrats to Dr @jessica_oleary @GenderWomenHist @ACU_IHSS & Dr Luisa Stella de Oliveira Coutinho Silva @mpilhlt for award of DAAD-Vic Research Funding Scheme grant @veskiorg @DAAD_Germany for project “Women in the Global Portuguese Empire (1500-1800)” bit.ly/3Hgc9fL


















